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"You do deeds that are finer in your eyes than a hair, which we used to count, in the time of the Prophet ﷺ, among the destroyers."

إِنَّكُمْ لَتَعْمَلُونَ أَعْمَالاً هِيَ أَدَقُّ فِي أَعْيُنِكُمْ مِنَ الشَّعَرِ، إِنْ كُنَّا نَعُدُّهَا عَلَى عَهْدِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم الْمُوبِقَاتِ

Narrated from Anas ibn Mālik. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6492 (Kitāb ar-Riqāq).

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In The Minor Sins That Aren't Minor

Anas ibn Mālik lived long enough to see the generation that came after the Prophet ﷺ. And he said a thing to them that ought to stop anyone who believes he has a reasonable sense of proportion:

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Anas is speaking to the generation that came immediately after the Companions — men and women who prayed, who fasted, who walked the streets of Madinah within living memory of revelation. Among the most religious human beings who have ever drawn breath. And what he observes is that their weighing had failed, not their practice. Their sense of what a thing weighs.

"You do deeds that are finer in your eyes than a hair, which we used to count, in the time of the Prophet ﷺ, a
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